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Posts tagged with 'archaeology' and 'biology' at MetaFilter.Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:51:54 -0800Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:51:54 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Neolithic Grog!http://www.metafilter.com/104947/Neolithic%2DGrog
<a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Beer-Archaeologist.html?c=y&amp;story=fullstory">The Beer Archaeologist.</a> "Biomolecular archaeologist" <a href="http://www.penn.museum/sites/biomoleculararchaeology/">Dr. Patrick McGovern</a> has unearthed <a href="http://www.economist.com/diversions/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=883706">millennia-old</a> alcohol recipes and <a href="http://penn.museum/press-releases/164-5100-year-old-chemical-evidence-for-ancient-medicinal-remedies-discovered-in-ancient-egyptian-wine-jars.html">ancient medicinals</a>, "by analyzing residues in ancient pottery. Now he's working with brewer Sam Calagione, (of Discovery Channel's <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/brew-masters/"><em>Brew Masters,</em></a> <small>(autoplaying video)</small>) whose pub <a href="http://www.dogfish.com/">Dogfish Head</a> serves up <a href="http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/year-round-brews/midas-touch.htm">beers</a> based on recipes that are thousands of years old." <small>(<a href="http://io9.com/5815318/experimental-beer-archaeology-yields-3000+year+old-brews-spiked-with-thyme">Via</a>)</small> Mr. Calagione: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/76655/Is-that-annals-or-anals">previously on MeFi</a>.
<a href="http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArchiveDetails.aspx?ID=105175">Interview</a> with Dr. McGovern (2009).
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/did-a-thirst-for-beer-spark-civilization-1869187.html">Did a thirst for beer spark civilization?</a>
Dr. McGovern's <a href="http://www.penn.museum/sites/biomoleculararchaeology/?page_id=10">bio</a>. He is "Scientific Director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages, and Health at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, where he is also an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology. In the popular imagination, he is known as the "Indiana Jones of Ancient Ales, Wines, and Extreme Beverages." Also see: "<a href="http://www.penn.museum/sites/wine/wineintro.html">The Origins and Ancient History of Wine</a>." tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.104947Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:51:54 -0800zarqAdaptation to High Altitude in Tibethttp://www.metafilter.com/93400/Adaptation%2Dto%2DHigh%2DAltitude%2Din%2DTibet
<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/07/01/128242943/tibetans-may-be-fastest-evolutionary-adapters-ever">Tibetans May Be Fastest Evolutionary Adapters Ever.</a> "A group of scientists in China, Denmark and the U.S. recently <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/329/5987/75">documented</a> the fastest genetic change observed in humans. According to their findings, Tibetan adaption to high altitude might have taken just 3,000 years. That's a flash, in terms of evolutionary time, but it's one that's in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/science/02tibet.html">dispute</a>." tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.93400Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:17:17 -0800homunculusI'm sure this'll end well....http://www.metafilter.com/89422/Im%2Dsure%2Dthisll%2Dend%2Dwell
We may soon be able to clone Neanderthals. But <a href="http://www.archaeology.org/1003/etc/neanderthals.html">should we</a>? An essay from Archaeology Magazine examines the ethical, scientific and legal ramifications. <small>(Via <a href="http://www.heatherpringle.com/">Heather Pringle</a>'s <a href="http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/why-we-should-worry-about-neanderthal-clones/">Time Machine blog</a>, where essay author Zach Zorich posted a <a href="http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/why-we-should-worry-about-neanderthal-clones/#comment-114">reply</a> and elicited <a href="http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/politics-science-and-the-cloning-of-neanderthals/">a response</a>.)</small> Background: Last year, a team of researchers led by geneticist <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1595326_1595329_1616144,00.html">Svante</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Pääbo">Pääbo</a> at the <a href="http://www.mpg.de/english/">Max Planck Institute</a> announced that they had <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212112731.htm">completed a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome</a>. The project was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/21/science/21neanderthal.html?_r=1">begun in 2006</a>.
William Saletan <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2205310/">covered some of the same ground in Slate</a> in 2008, as did Reason.com <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2009/02/17/neanderthal-rights">last year</a>:
<i><blockquote>One science fiction trope says that it is impossible for two intelligent species to evolve simultaneously on the same planet since one would inevitably out-compete the other. This may have happened on our planet. Neanderthals disappeared around the same time that modern humans began to move into their territory. New research suggests that our ancestors <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003972">killed them off</a>. Perhaps we should use modern science to resurrect Neanderthals in order to right an ancestral wrong.</blockquote></i> tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.89422Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:48:15 -0800zarqNew peer-reviewed Creationist Research Journalhttp://www.metafilter.com/68741/New%2Dpeerreviewed%2DCreationist%2DResearch%2DJournal
<a href="http://www.answersingenesis.org/arj">Answers Research Journal</a> is a new "professional peer-reviewed technical journal for the publication of interdisciplinary scientific and other relevant research from the perspective of the recent Creation and the global Flood within a biblical framework." <a href="http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/current">Current Volume</a>. <a href="http://www.answersingenesis.org/arj/call-for-papers">Call for Papers. </a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.68741Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:07:48 -0800Rumple